Senate Rejects Transfer Of Bakassi To Cameroun

Really??

So when did the Bakassi people migrate to Bakassi and where did they migrate from???


Except you are telling me ICJ has the devine right to evict people from their land.

I was elated when I got the news. But where was the senate when Obasanjo was ceding bakassi over to cameroon.

I asked the same question, and now all this useless senators as i called them are trading blames now.

Maybe if they get off their asses and start doing what they are elected or selected to do,   this could have been prevented.

I think Nigerians are generally lawless and this can be traced back to a many years  of Military arbitrary rule. Okada riders ride against traffic indiscriminately and the same applies to Danfo drivers. The so-called educated drivers fail to obey traffic lights and resorts to fisticuffs in the event of minor road accidents. Garbage litters some of our major roads and is sometimes dropped from moving luxury cars. New banks building materials are dumped on the road as if the road belongs to their Board Chairman. Umbrella telephone operators and  Beer parlours setup shop in the midde of the road and illegal kiosks dominate the landscape.

Lets us disobey the ICJ judgement because lawlessness is certainly in our character.

May be OBJ agreed with the camorounians to have his own personal share of anything got from bakassi oil.
Nigeria is a better country to hold unto Bakassi than . ,  ,  . . . . . . . .

@ Denex, all your explanation misses one key fact - THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE TO DETERMINE WHICH COUNTRY THEY WISH TO BELONG TO.
Trust me, only in Africa do colonial masters still determine border disputes in the yr 2007.

In developed nations the rulings of the ICJ are never binding (such bogus courts are reserved for slow-witted African nations who need the white man to think for him) as there are constitutional provisions for referendums. Unfortunately such simple tasks are simply beyond us.

Once Nigeria submitted to the jurisdiction of the ICJ,it has no choice but to comply with its ruling on the matter.You can't submit to the court's jurisdiction and once the ruling goes against you,proclaim that you are not bound by it.We won't be having this debate if the court ruled in our favor.

It was not obligatory on us to have the dispute litigated by the ICJ.ICJ's jurisdiction operates on the basis of consent.We consented,we lost,case closed.

Wiser nations,like Israel, have the foresight not to consent to the ICJ's jurisdiction.

Gbam! There goes my point.

@ono & willy

so this has become another tribal thing which will be based on mixed blood or full Niger-Deltan.

We are talking Nigeria, Cameroun and Bakassi some clowns come in with tribal segregation again. Very soon, you will say it is because the Judges and Counsel at the ICJ were not full blooded Niger-Deltans, that's why we lost the ruling.

Chicken-brained imps.

What's this thingy with tribal sentiments? See, you'd better live with the fact that your tribe and people come first in all things, especially when the chips are down. To deny your root is to deny the whole essence of your being on planet earth.

One braindead Afam won't let me be because I posted something about his people on the Igbo civil war. You need to see his claws and all stretched to the end to attack me at the slightest opportunity. Even in Iraq and Turkey, the Kurds are mapping out strategies to carve independent states for themselves. All other people the world over identify with their tribes and root and you're here claiming to be independent or something Nigeria. I no envy you at all.  And I won't call you some silly names here, OK.

Like I said in my last entry, the Bakassi people are willing and ready to form a nation of their own. But do you think Cameroon and Nigeria would allow them? It's too late to start analysing the ICJ ruling.

I'll agree with someone who said the Bakassi people should negotiate their new status in Cameroon and if they cannot stay with that country, they should progress with their plans of forming a new nation. . . . . after all this is done almost everywhere.

tribal bumkoms! nigerians can't cure themselves from theis virulent attack, what a shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The senate is just playing with people. What can they do,  Nothing ,  the decision have been taken and it is final. Just look at the map of bakassi and ask yourself if really bakassi is part of nIgeria,  From the map bakassi is more part of cameroon than Nigeria,   Bakassi have never been part of Nigeria,  Nigerian immigrated there,  Check your fact,   So since we nigerian immgrated to USA,  and other countries should this other countries be part of NIgeria.

Are you serious??? Just hand it to them  and let's focus on fixing our country and taking care of our citizens, with all the oil we have, what have we done with it? It would be ludicrious if we went to war over something like this, white people watch all the wars in Africa and laught at us calling us savages that we can't solve disputes. War is simply not worth it, why not spend this money on free education (gbogbo aye ti lo, awa sin wo se n le) and free healthcare.

where is yaradua now to save these people??

is this how to protect your people when he sworn on May 29th?

but he very fast to accept 'green tea' agrement while these people have 'red tea' by the time the camerounian deals with them.

that's a very good decision, this senate has been quite impressive, why should we cede our territory to the camrounian state? would they have acted likewise if they were in our own shoes? would the western powers carry out such a move in such a situation?? the world is full of hypocrites:American, camerounian,french,British, and not surprisingly Nigerian Hypocrites( in the likes of our Baba at ota).
  Our territory is our property, not that of any other nation, why did it take so long for the icj to realize that bakaasi belonged to cameroun?(some quaters have it anyway that the icj's decision wwas influenced by france and her agents).But for the idiots we've always had in Nigeria who love to act the big brother, we should be talking of how to deploy troops to protect our citizens within the territory.I just hope Yar'adua is courageous enough to know when to fight these Demons: internal and external, and when to stop.